“We will not be driven back into the closet. We will meet all attacks with resistance.” The crowd gathered outside the Admiral Duncan pub where three LGBT+ people died in Nazi nail bomb attack 20 years ago.

Figures released last week show that reports of homophobic abuse increased last year. But during the same period the number of prosecutions fell from 20 percent to 8 percent.

Sophie, a Labour Party and trans activist, said, “If the police are institutionally racist, it’s clear that they are institutionally transphobic and homophobic.”